Description: "The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peace. Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalization in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counter-history of an idea, Palen explores how, beginning in the 1840s, left-wing globalists became the leaders of the peace and anti-imperialist movements of their age."--
Review Quotes: "Intriguing, thought-provoking and impressively panoramic. . . . [Pax Economica] tells the neglected and, to anyone conditioned by contemporary political alignments, somewhat surprising tale of an era, roughly between 1840 and 1945, when notable support for free trade came from a loosely defined political left."---Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal